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Published on Nov 6, 2012

Imagine a submarine. Now shrink that down to one-tenth the size of a human hair. It's not science fiction. Scientists recently made these tiny "microsubmarines" a reality.

According to the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano, scientists have created the first ever self-propelled "microsubmarines" able to pick up and transport droplets of oil from contaminated waters. These tiny machines could play an important role in cleaning up oil spills, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico.

Animation and editing by Janali Thompson
Produced by the American Chemical Society

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  • Lerkero

    Lerkero 6 months ago

    The current technology is expensive, but considering the size of the microsubmarines it will take a WHOLE LOT of them to clean up big oil spills. Is there really a possibility that they will be much cheaper overall?

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    gthreesix 6 months ago

    Flagella!! sorry I had to get that off my chest.

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